visual notetaking Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/visual-notetaking/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:51:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 The Google Drawings Manifesto for Teachers https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:31:05 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5453 Google Drawings is a blank slate for your students’ creativity. Find lots of tips, tricks and teaching ideas in this post.Google Drawings is the hidden gem in the core G Suite tools for education. Everyone is familiar with Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. They correlate nicely with the Microsoft Office products we used for […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers/feed/ 11 10 tips for creating awesome diginotes with Canva https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-tips-for-creating-awesome-diginotes-with-canva/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-tips-for-creating-awesome-diginotes-with-canva https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-tips-for-creating-awesome-diginotes-with-canva/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:44:10 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=9084 Visual notetaking allows the learner to combine text and visuals to create an easy to follow format. Canva, a free, online graphic design can help you create beautiful digital notes or diginotes. Here are 10 tips for getting started with Canva.I’m pretty sure I am addicted to Canva, the graphic-design tool website. Canva, which uses […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-tips-for-creating-awesome-diginotes-with-canva/feed/ 1 I’m going back to paper AND staying digital https://ditchthattextbook.com/im-going-back-to-paper-and-staying-digital/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-going-back-to-paper-and-staying-digital https://ditchthattextbook.com/im-going-back-to-paper-and-staying-digital/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:25:56 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5393 As a teacher, I went all-in on being as digital as possible years ago. I made the “I’m going totally paperless” statement like so many well-meaning teachers. I had my best-laid plans ready to go. There were glitches and road bumps, but my class was becoming more and more digital. But something was missing. A […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/im-going-back-to-paper-and-staying-digital/feed/ 11 Use Google Drawings for brain-friendly visual notetaking https://ditchthattextbook.com/use-google-drawings-for-brain-friendly-visual-notetaking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=use-google-drawings-for-brain-friendly-visual-notetaking https://ditchthattextbook.com/use-google-drawings-for-brain-friendly-visual-notetaking/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:45:33 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4132 Our brains like words. But they really love images. The brain works in images. When we talk, our brains change the information we’re receiving into images to encode it and make it available for recall later. A powerful way to take advantage of that is visual notetaking — recording ideas using both images and text. Some call […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/use-google-drawings-for-brain-friendly-visual-notetaking/feed/ 6 Sketchnoting 101, for those with little artistic talent https://ditchthattextbook.com/sketchnoting-101-for-those-with-little-artistic-talent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sketchnoting-101-for-those-with-little-artistic-talent https://ditchthattextbook.com/sketchnoting-101-for-those-with-little-artistic-talent/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:45:37 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=2805 Sketchnoting — creating notes with visuals, sketches or doodles — can be powerful. It’s powerful for the sketcher — visual notes capture ideas in ways that are more likely to stick in the brain by nature. It’s powerful for the viewer — it presents ideas in an engaging way that can be understood almost instantly. […]

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